Sound of the Police

I was flipping through Speak, Memory the other day and found myself reading about the writer who interested Nabokav the most, and who does not exist: Sirin. Just for fun I googled sirin and wikipedia informed me that a sirin is a mythological creature of Russian legend that has the head and chest of a beautiful women and the body of a bird, usually an owl. These cratures ae based on the Greek mythological creatures called sirens (see below). Sirins sang beautiful songs to the saints, but if men heard the songs, they would forget everything on earth and follow the sirins until they died. It seems Nabokav couldn't keep himself away from this subject.